Comments on: Mini LD 16 Teaser: Constraints

By: Hybrid Mind Studios » Two Thousand Ten and Beyond!

Hybrid Mind Studios » Two Thousand Ten and Beyond! — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:53:07 +0000

[...] the competition side of things I managed to host my first Mini Ludum Dare event around the theme of Constraints which I felt had a great turnout of submitted games and was [...]

By: HybridMind

HybridMind — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:06:27 +0000

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/02/19/mini-ld-16-constraints/

By: snowyowl

snowyowl — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:47:30 +0000

Drumroll please… if someone can find a drumroll that lasts 15 minutes

By: TeamQuiggan

TeamQuiggan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:54:26 +0000

I’m pretty sure I’m down for this! I really enjoyed it last time, and hopefully, I’ll make a real game, instead of a neat sandbox.

By: crackerblocks

crackerblocks — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:43:13 +0000

Pretty sure I’ll join in the fun. The more arbitrary restrictions, the better.

By: RedReaper132

RedReaper132 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:13:44 +0000

I think I will participate in this mini LD. It is my first LD but I hope I will make it. I hope that there is a color pallet restriction… that would be cool.

By: distractionware » Finish your abandoned RPG

distractionware » Finish your abandoned RPG — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:12:36 +0000

[...] in the next two weeks that I want to do instead – Klik of the Month is tomorrow night, Mini Ludum Dare 16 is this weekend, the 371-Pirate Kart is next weekend, and at some point before the end of the month [...]

By: romer

romer — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:44:09 +0000

I’m liking the idea behind this mini-LD. This sounds like it could be awesome.

By: pulkanat

pulkanat — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:25:52 +0000

The theme is great but I won’t be able to participate this weekend too.

If we can choose our blocks freely inbetween the weekdays I’ll pick Tuesday to Thursday most likely.

I remember the 8-bit home computers, SEGA Master System and Nintendo something, all games would have the same colors, the same fonts, the same controller, and mostly similar sound effects. It all looked familiar when you played a new game, yet there were also quite different and innovative games too. Looks like we may have a Mini-LD 16 retro genre a few years later from now…

By: Codexus

Codexus — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:16:56 +0000

Actually arrow keys + space is a problematic combination on standard/cheap keyboards so that should be avoided.

By: 31eee384

31eee384 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:08:31 +0000

That solution (arrow keys + space bar sort of thing) was what I was thinking when I posted that. Didn’t even think about a more extensive control limit; I agree that “press A for Jump” would be too much.

By: agj

agj — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:17:18 +0000

Very neat. Not sure if I’ll be participating, but I hope to.

By: snowyowl

snowyowl — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:58:55 +0000

But how will that be possible if he doesn’t intend to limit us to a specific topic or genre? The only solution I can think of is to limit us to certain characters: say, the four arrow keys and the spacebar.

If you get déjà vu when reading that post, you’ve probably heard of the YoYo Games Competition05. Some of the constraints are almost the same. I admit that I am vaguely disappointed by this theme.

Not that I won’t make a game for it…

By: 31eee384

31eee384 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:31:44 +0000

Agreed. A color palette would be neat to work with, and it would be interesting to see what other people do with it too.

I’m wondering what the “text limits” possibility means, though. Limited number of characters, limited use of certain letters, limited to the use of certain sentences?

I also like the control constraint idea, as long as it doesn’t go too far. Using the same controls over a bunch of games would be neat.

By: MrPhil

MrPhil — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:19:04 +0000

This sounds really interesting. I might have to participate. I like the color palette idea. It’d also be cool if there where three or so pieces of art to use.

By: Sparky

Sparky — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:32:22 +0000

Neat, thanks for the clarification.

By: Doumo

Doumo — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:20:18 +0000

I was planning on making an ASCII game anyway.

By: HybridMind

HybridMind — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:37:52 +0000

re: your question about my aesthetic intent… yes as a minor side effect I’m hoping we’ll end up with a series of game entries that will share far more in common then a lot of the compos that are linked by theme only. I feel it would be interesting to play a series of games with a common control, palette, dimension, and other constraints but where each designer implemented a completely different genre/topic within that. We’ll see what happens…

By: HybridMind

HybridMind — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:32:57 +0000

Yes, feel free to pick any 48hr block. The mini LD weekend exists as a focus for people who want more of the momentum from having others working at the same time but like other mini LDs before this one I am cool with the casual approach to which block you pick.

By: HybridMind

HybridMind — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:31:40 +0000

It is from a series of architecture photos about channels of water